Rabbits Crabs Etc

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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824808174
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rabbits, Crabs, Etc. written by and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The delicacy of language and skillful use of detail are consistently outstanding in this slim, exquisite volume of meticulously rendered stories." --Publishers Weekly"An extremely illuminating collection. Each story is compelling--spare in style but rich in emotion. Taken as a whole, these stories give considerable insight into the Japanese psyche, both male and female." --Booklist

Author : Margery Williams
Publisher : Running Press Kids
ISBN 13 : 0762486678
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Velveteen Rabbit written by Margery Williams and published by Running Press Kids. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Littles ones can now cherish this classic, beloved story of how one special toy becomes real in a new board book edition of The Velveteen Rabbit. Just as the boy loves the Velveteen Rabbit so much that the toy becomes real, young readers will treasure this adorable, abridged board book edition of the beloved classic by Margery Williams. Follow a beloved toy who goes from comforting his boy in sickness to being cast out into the world cold and alone to finally being turned into a real rabbit in this timeless children's story. The work of best-selling illustrator Don Daily brings this vivid retelling of the enduring classic, The Velveteen Rabbit, to life.

Author : Mel Boring
Publisher : Cooper Square Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781559715799
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rabbits, Squirrels, and Chipmunks written by Mel Boring and published by Cooper Square Pub. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the physical characteristics and habits of a variety of rabbits, squirrels, and chipmunks.

Author : Phyllis Birnbaum
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231500029
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Girls, Shining Stars, the Skies of Tokyo written by Phyllis Birnbaum and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1999-03-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunning biographical portraits in Modern Girls, Shining Stars, the Skies of Tokyo, some adapted from essays that first appeared in The New Yorker, explore the lives of five women who did their best to stand up and cause more trouble than was considered proper in Japanese society. Their lives stretch across a century and a half of explosive cultural and political transformations in Japan. These five artists-two actresses, two writers, and a painter-were noted for their talents, their beauty, and their love affairs rather than for any association with politics. But through the fearlessness of their art and their private lives, they influenced the attitudes of their times and challenged the status quo. Phyllis Birnbaum presents her subjects from various perspectives, allowing them to shine forth in all of their contradictory brilliance: generous and petulant, daring and timid, prudent and foolish. There is Matsui Sumako, the actress who introduced Ibsen's Nora and Wilde's Salome to Japanese audiences but is best remembered for her ambition, obstreperous temperament and turbulent love life. We also meet Takamura Chieko, a promising but ultimately disappointed modernist painter whose descent into mental illness was immortalized in poetry by a husband who may well have been the source of her troubles. In a startling act of rebellion, the sensitive, aristocratic poet Yanagiwara Byakuren left her crude and powerful husband, eloped with her revolutionary lover, and published her request for a divorce in the newspapers. Uno Chiyo was a popular novelist who preferred to be remembered for the romantic wars she fought. Willful, shrewd, and ambitious, Uno struggled for sexual liberation and literary merit. Birnbaum concludes by exploring the life and career of Takamine Hideko, a Japanese film star who portrayed wholesome working-class heroines in hundreds of films, working with such directors as Naruse, Kinoshita, Ozu, and Kurosawa. Angry about a childhood spent working to provide for greedy relatives, Takamine nevertheless made peace with her troubled past and was rewarded for years of hard work with a brilliant career. Drawing on fictional accounts, interviews, memoirs, newspaper reports, and the creative works of her subjects, Birnbaum has created vivid, seamless narrative portraits of these five remarkable women.

Author : Fumiko Enchi
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824821876
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Tale of False Fortunes written by Fumiko Enchi and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2000-03-31 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tale of False Fortunes is a masterful translation of Enchi Fumiko's (1905-1986) modern classic, Namamiko monogatari. Written in 1965, this prize-winning work of historical fiction presents an alternative account of an imperial love affair narrated in the eleventh-century romance A Tale of Flowering Fortunes (Eiga monogatari). Both stories are set in the Heian court of the emperor Ichijo (980-1011) and tell of the ill-fated love between the emperor and his first consort, Teishi, and of the political rivalries that threaten to divide them. While the earlier work can be viewed largely as a panegyric to the all-powerful regent Fujiwara no Michinaga, Enchi's account emphasizes Teishi's nobility and devotion to the emperor and celebrates her "moral victory" over the regent, who conspired to divert the emperor's attentions toward his own daughter, Shoshi. The narrative of A Tale of False Fortunes is built around a fictitious historical document, which is so well crafted that it was at first believed to be an actual document of the Heian period. Throughout Enchi's innovation and skill are evident as she alternates between modern and classical Japanese, interjecting her own commentary and extracts from A Tale of Flowering Fortunes, to impress upon the reader the authenticity of the tale presented within the novel.

Author : Jeni Wittrock
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 149662940X
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pet Hermit Crabs Up Close written by Jeni Wittrock and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pet hermit crabs have cool body parts that burrow, pinch, and climb. Take an up-close look at these shell-toting friends.

Author : Marguerite Naylor LEYLAND
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bunny Rabbits at the Seaside, Etc. [With Plates.]. written by Marguerite Naylor LEYLAND and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Taeko Kōno
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811213912
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toddler-hunting & Other Stories written by Taeko Kōno and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disquieting stories exploring women's freedom & bondage in post-WWII Japan.

Author : Phyllis Birnbaum
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374706964
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glory in a Line written by Phyllis Birnbaum and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-11-13 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography in English of the Japanese artist who was a central figure in the dazzling artistic milieu of 1920s Paris When we think of expatriates in Paris during the early decades of the twentieth century, certain names come to mind: Hemingway, Picasso, Modigliani—and Foujita, the Japanese artist whose distinctive works, bringing elements of Japanese art to Western oil painting, made him a major cultural figure in 1920s Montparnasse. Foujita was the only Japanese artist to be considered part of the "School of Paris," which also counted among its members such prominent artists as Picasso and Modigliani. Noteworthy, too, was Foujita's personal style, flamboyant even for those flamboyant times. He was best known for his drawings of female nudes and cats, and for his special white color upon which he could draw a masterful line—one that seemed to outline a woman's whole body in a single unbroken stroke. With the advent of the Second World War, Foujita returned to Japan, where he allied himself with the ruling Japanese militarists and painted canvases in support of the war effort. After Japan's defeat, he was scorned for his devotion to the military cause and returned to France, where he remained until his death in 1968. Acclaimed writer and translator Phyllis Birnbaum not only explores Foujita's fascinating, tumultuous life but also assesses the appeal of his paintings, which, in their mixture of Eastern and Western traditions, are memorable for their vibrancy of form and purity of line.

Author : T. S. (Theodore Sherman) Palmer
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781290447355
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jack Rabbits of the United States written by T. S. (Theodore Sherman) Palmer and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.